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2006 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright
2005 Wolfgang Bauer, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change', dies of heart failure in Graz, Styria 2004 Peter Barnes, English Playwright 2004 Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright 2003 Jack Gelber, American Playwright 2003 Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66 2002 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright 2001 Anthony Shaffer, playwright, Sleuth, dies at 75 2001 Jason Miller, playwright/actor, That Championship Season, dies at 62 1997 Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78 1996 Cao Yu, playwright, dramatist, dies at 86 1996 George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73 1996 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87 1996 W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67 1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 1996 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53 1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69 1996 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80 1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86 1995 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64 1995 Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84 1995 Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 1995 Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88 1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1995 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95 1995 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 1995 Michael Vincent Gazzo, U.S. actor and playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71 1995 Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1995 George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105 1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57 1995 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75 1995 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 1994 John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65 1994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66 1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77 1994 Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95 1994 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94 1994 Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84 1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered 1994 Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies 1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57 1992 Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40 1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/British playwright (Alfie), dies at 81 1991 Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 1991 Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87 1991 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50 1991 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies 1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 1988 Errol John, playwright, dies at 63 1988 Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99 1987 Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77 1986 Jean Genat, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75 1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79 1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88 1983 Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 1982 Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 1979 George Seaton, American Playwright 1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 1978 Hanns Johst, German Playwright 1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92 1977 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80 1973 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75 1973 William M Inge, U.S. playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60 1973 Jane Bowles, writer, playwright, dies at 56 1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 1971 A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1971 Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 1970 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83 1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61 1968 Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1967 Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34 1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 1967 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72 1966 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88 1966 Jo van Ammers-Kuller, Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), dies at 81 1965 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 1965 Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86 1965 Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. playwright, dies in New York City, dies at 34 1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93 1964 John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55 1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84 1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71 1963 Clifford Odets, U.S. playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57 1963 Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS 1963 Herman Bouber, Blom, actor and playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77 1962 Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75 1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59 1958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies 1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 1958 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49 1958 Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition 1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72 1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright 1956 Mark Handley, born in Hollywood, California, writer, screenwriter, playwright, married, lived in log cabin with his wife to live in isolation, wrote play Idioglossia, which became the film, Nell, starring Jodie Foster, 1994, directed by Michael Apted 1955 Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright 1955 Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 1954 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87 1954 Harvey Fierstein, born in Brooklyn, New York, playwright, Torch Song Trilogy, ID4 1953 Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65 1952 Beth Henley, Jackson, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Miss Firecracker 1952 Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer, Purper 1952 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76 1951 Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo, New York, composer/playwright, 1972 TONY 1950 Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright 1950 Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright (Lesson Tombeaux), dies at 83 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies 1949 Christopher Durang, Montclair, New Jersey, playwright/actor, Sister Mary 1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho 1947 David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir, Speed the Plow, House of Games 1947 Willy Russell, author/playwright, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita 1947 Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright 1947 David Hare, playwright, Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale 1946 David A. Stockman, American Playwright 1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident 1946 Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena 1946 Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright, Oviri, Hotel du Lac 1945 Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66 1945 August Wilson, U.S., playwright, Fences, Pulitzer 1987 1945 Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45 1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71 1944 George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 1943 Sam Shepard, Illinois, actor and playwright, Frances, Crimes of the Heart 1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration 1943 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84 1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 1943 Charles Ludlam, New York City, playwright/actor, Big Easy 1942 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64 1942 Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright 1942 Ama Ata Aidoo, born in Saltpond, Ghana, Ghanaian author and playwright, wrote 'The Dilemma of a Ghost' 1942 David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright, Removalists 1942 Susan Hill, English playwright, Magic Apple Tree 1941 Wolfgang Bauer, born in Graz, Styria, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change' 1940 David Rabe, born in Dubuque Iowa, playwright, Streamers 1939 Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright 1939 Terrence McNally, St. Petersburg, Florida, playwright, Bad Habits 1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 1939 Volker Braun, born in Dresden, German, writer, poet, playwright, wrote 'Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts' or 'The Unrestrained Life of Kast' 1939 Alan Ayckbourn, born in London, playwright 1939 Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright dies at 87 1938 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 1938 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67 1937 Tom Stoppard, born in Czechoslovakia, playwright, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-1968 Tony 1937 James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1937 Arthur Kopit, U.S., playwright, Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis 1937 Lanford Wilson, U.S. playwright, Hot L Baltimore 1937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1937 Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist and playwright, The Family 1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director 1936 James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright, Butley 1936 Mart Crowley, playwright, Boys in the Band 1936 June Jordan, U.S. playwright and poet, His Own Where 1936 Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 1936 Paul Zindel, playwright, Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds 1936 Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright, Are You Lonesome Tonight 1936 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66 1935 Ed Bullins, Philadelphia, playwright 1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright, Karaoke, Midnight Movie 1935 Trevor Griffiths, playwright, Absolute Beginners 1935 George P Baker, U.S. playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68 1934 Ronald Harwood, Horwitz, South African playwright, Dresser 1934 Sonia Sanchez, U.S. playwright and poet, The Bronx is Next 1934 Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up 1934 Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor, Secret Policeman's Other Ball 1933 Michael Frayn, English Playwright 1933 David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright, Home 1933 Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner, dies 1932 Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left 1932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright, Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen 1932 Lady Augusta, Isabella Gregory, playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80 1932 Jack Gelber, U.S., playwright, Connection, Apple 1931 Rudolf W. Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60 1931 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian Playwright 1931 David Belasco, American Playwright 1931 Beverley Cross, playwright 1931 Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright, Deputy 1931 Ernesto Rosenstand, Arubian playwright, Kiko Ta Di Nos? 1931 Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist 1931 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist 1931 Peter Barnes, English Playwright 1930 John Arden, England, novelist/playwright, Left Handed Liberty 1930 Harold Pinter, born in London, England, playwright, Homecoming, Servant 1930 Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, Raisin in the Sun 1930 Clive Exton, scriptwriter and playwright 1929 John Osborne, England, playwright, Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964 1929 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright and poet, dies 1929 Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies 1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77 1928 W Gordon Smith, playwright 1928 John B. Keane, Irish Playwright 1928 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic 1928 Peter Hacks, German playwright, Tie Windloch 1928 Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story 1927 Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion 1927 Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright, Knack 1927 Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright, Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues 1927 James Goldman, author/playwright, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid 1926 Murray Schisgal, playwright, Luv 1926 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright, 'Love or Money' 1926 Beah Richards, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, actress/playwright, Big Shot, Generation 1926 Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright, Sleuth 1926 Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright, 5 Finger Exercise, Equus 1926 Dario Fo, born in Leggiuno Sangiano, Virginia, playwright, Nobel-1997 1925 Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright, Cola Drinkers 1925 Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 1925 James Saunders, English chemist/playwright, Ark 1924 William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68 1924 Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright 1924 Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago 1924 Robert Bolt, British Playwright 1924 Jeffrey Segal, actor and playwright, Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces 1924 Kobo Abe, born in Tokyo, Japan, playwright, Woman, the Dunes 1924 Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53 1924 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72 1923 George Byatt, playwright 1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels 1922 George Axelrod, playwright, Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop 1921 Dusty Hughers, playwright 1921 Elaine Dundy, born in New York, American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress, playwright 1921 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58 1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit 1920 Alice Childress, U.S. playwright/actress, Wedding Band 1920 Nestor de Tiere, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies 1920 Jeffrey Segal, actor, Traitors, playwright 1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright 1919 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright 1919 Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright 1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79 1919 Norman F Simpson, British playwright, One Way Pendulum 1918 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38 1918 Arthur Laurents, born in New York City, playwright, West Side Story, Gypsy 1918 Emiel van der Straeten, Delrue, Flemish playwright, dies at 30 1918 Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat 1917 Ossie Davis, born in Cogdell, Georgia, actor and playwright, Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam 1917 Jane Bowles, born in New York, New York, writer, playwright, wrote 'Two Serious Ladies', 'In The Summer House', works admired by Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, John Ashbery 1917 Herwig Hensen, Flor Mielants, Flemish poet/playwright 1916 Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright 1916 Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright, living legacy award 1995 1916 Stanley Kauffmann, born in New York City, playwright, Red Handkerchief Man 1916 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker 1915 Arthur Miller, New York City, playwright, Death of a Salesman, Crucible 1915 Jerome Lawrence, American Playwright 1914 Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-French journalist/playwright, Lesson Hauteurs 1914 Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall 1913 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Netherlands playwright/director, Albee/Pinter 1913 William M Inge, U.S. playwright, Picnic-Pulitzer 1953 1912 Garson Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, playwright/producer, Double Life 1912 Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark 1912 William Douglas-Home, playwright, Now .. Barabbas 1912 Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof 1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau 1911 Terence Rattigan, playwright, Winslow Boy, Browning Version 1911 George Seaton, American Playwright 1911 Tennessee Williams, born in Columbus, Mississippi, playwright, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 1911 Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright, Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba 1910 Georges Schehade, Lebanese poet/playwright, Monsieur Bob'le 1910 Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature 1910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert 1910 Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1909 Seicho Matsumoto, Dutch Japanese detective/playwright, 10 to Sen 1909 Eugene Ionesco, playwright 1909 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer, Heart of the Matter 1909 Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies 1909 Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright 1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 1909 Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright 1909 Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright 1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 1908 William Saroyan, U.S., novelist/playwright, Time of Your Life 1908 Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright, Paolo Paoli 1908 Dom Joao G da Camara, Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at 55 1907 Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright, Ring Around the Moon 1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright, Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes 1907 Mary Coyle Chase, playwright, Harvey-Pulitzer Prize 1906 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright, One in White, Darkness at Noon 1906 Sidney Kiescher Kingslei, playwright 1906 Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969 1905 George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor and playwright, David Copperfield 1904 Moss Hart, born in Bronx, New York, playwright, You Can't Take it With You, Act 1 1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur 1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory, 1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory, 1902 Nathalie Sarraute, Cherniak, Russian/French playwright 1901 Odon [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian playwright 1901 Paul Osborn, playwright, Mornings at 7 1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director, Tivoli 1901 James A Herne, J Aherne, U.S. playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies 1901 John W. Van Duren, playwright, I Remember Mama 1901 Walter E. Schafer, German playwright 1900 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter 1900 Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright, Heliga Familjen 1900 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71 1899 Noel Coward, England, playwright, In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award 1899 Armand Salacrou, French playwright 1899 Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright, Jean de la Lune 1899 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright 1899 Bella Spewack, born in Hungary, playwright, Kiss Me Kate 1898 Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer 1897 Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright, Le Canari et le Cerise 1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53 1897 Thornton Wilder, U.S., novelist/playwright, Our Town 1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled 1896 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/U.S. playwright 1896 Robert Sheriff, playwright, Journey's End 1896 Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright 1895 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright 1895 Alfred Neumann, German playwright, Devil 1895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire 1894 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright, Verschaeve Gives Evidence 1894 Paul Green, U.S., novelist/playwright, In Abraham's Bosom 1893 August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director, Uninhabited Island 1893 Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page 1893 Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father 1892 Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene 1892 Ugo Betti, Italian playwright 1891 Ferdinand Bruckner, Theodor Tagger, Austrian playwright, Races 1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow 1890 Marc Connelly, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, playwright, One Minute Please 1890 A. P. Herbert, born in Ashted, Surrey, novelist, humorist, playwright and activist 1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67 1890 Hanns Johst, German Playwright 1890 Dorothy Heyward, New York City, playwright, Porgy 1889 Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright 1889 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50 1889 Honore-Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher/playwright 1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union 1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright 1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor and playwright, Fatherland 1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright 1887 Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright, Sudanese legends 1887 Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright, Writ for Libel 1887 Robinson Jeffers, U.S., poet/playwright, Tamar and Other Poems, Medea 1886 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright, Le Cocu Magnificent 1886 John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright 1886 Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti 1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952 1885 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright, Sailor's Wives 1885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will 1885 Edna Ferber, author, playwright 1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor and playwright, Story of a Cheat 1884 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac 1884 Jo van Ammers-Kuller, playwright, Rebellions 1884 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist 1884 Hugh S. Walpole, born in New Zealand, novelist and playwright, Jeremy, Maradick at 40 1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright, We 1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies 1882 Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright 1882 Jean Giraudoux, born in Bellac, France, playwright, Eglantine, Provinciales 1882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright 1882 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln 1881 Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright, Vengeanza de Don Mendo 1881 Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright, Balkan Princess 1880 Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities 1880 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, Black Girls Burden 1880 Sean O'Casey, born in Ireland, playwright, Playboy of the Western World 1879 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet, Avondvlam 1878 Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus 1878 Carl Sternheim, German playwright, Hyperion/Tabula Rasa 1878 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright, A Pal Utrai Fiuk 1877 Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle 1876 Wilson Mizner, born in Benicia, California, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner 1876 Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright, PIp, Carrying On 1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty 1875 Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror 1874 Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture 1874 William Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright 1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76 1873 Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, Los Galeotes 1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81 1871 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright 1871 Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish dramatist/playwright, El Flechazo 1870 Rudolf W. Canne, Fries playwright, Der de Wier Us 1870 Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright, Det evige Savn 1870 Prosper Merimee, French playwright (Carmen), dies at 66 1869 Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, Spanish playwright, Corte de Amor 1869 Emile Fabre, France, playwright, administrator of Comedie Franeaise 1868 Edmond Rostand, born in France, poet and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac 1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP 1867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon 1867 Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright, La Corbeille d'Octobre 1866 Tristan Bernard, French Playwright 1866 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, Nobel 1922 1866 George P. Baker, U.S. playwright, 47 Workshop 1866 George Ade, U.S., journalist/playwright/humorist, Fables in Slang 1865 Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright, Victoria Regina 1864 Thomas Dixon, U.S. attorney/playwright, Flaming Sword 1862 Georges Feydeau, French playwright, La Dame de Chez Maxim's 1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes 1862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist, La Ronde 1860 James M. Barrie, British Playwright 1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright, Cherry Orchard 1859 Maurice Donnay, French playwright, Lovers 1858 Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright, Life in Russian Theater 1858 Georges Courteline, Moineaux, French playwright 1858 Eugene Brieux, French playwright, Blanchette, Lesson Avaries 1855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright 1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 1853 David Belasco, American Playwright 1852 John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies 1852 Augusta Gregory, born in Ireland, playwright and poet, Yates mistress 1852 Isabella Gregory, born in Ireland, writer and playwright, Golden Apple 1852 [James] Burner Matthews, U.S. playwright/critic, New York Times 1852 Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies 1852 Hamid Abdulhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright 1852 Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor and playwright, O Noapte Furtunoasa 1851 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright, Judah 1851 Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright, Nyjarsnottin 1851 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright, Bondestudentar 1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke 1848 [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, French playwright and poet, Jeune Croyances 1846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright, Kohinoor 1845 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright, Sedan 1844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright, social evils 1844 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, Kovan onnen lapsia 1839 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, Der Schandfleck 1839 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic, Der Herr im Hause 1839 James A. Herne, J Aherne, U.S. playwright, Hearts of Oak 1837 Georg Buchner, German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23 1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright and scientist, Teatro Escogido 1829 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright, Caste 1828 Henrik Ibsen, born in Norway, playwright, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler 1828 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright 1824 Alexandre Dumas, born in France, playwright/novelist, Camille 1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright, Artists and Admirers 1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor and playwright, Rip van Winkle 1821 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda 1820 Hermann von Lingg, German playwright and poet 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright 1816 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright 1815 Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright 1813 Georg Buchner, German playwright, Dantons Tod/Woyzeck 1811 Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45 1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 1803 Prosper Merimee, Paris, France, playwright, Carmen 1803 Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit, Punch Mag 1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright 1799 Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright 1798 Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor and playwright, Die Vagabunden 1796 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright 1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies 1794 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62 1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies 1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath 1770 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42 1758 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 1756 Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72 1752 Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright, Wirrwarr 1751 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright 1751 Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright 1743 Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright and poet, dies 1732 George Colman, "the Elder", playwright, baptised 1732 Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright, Barber of Seville 1731 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright, Olint und Sophronia 1731 Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/interpreter 1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright 1728 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet 1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 1725 Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71 1721 Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies 1707 Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright, Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges 1700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate', dies at 59 1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53 1685 Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet, Tragedy of Zara 1684 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright, Puiterveense Helleveeg 1683 Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, Wiskunstenaars 1674 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58 1673 Moliere, French Playwright 1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright and poet, Sacred Odes and Songs 1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 1652 Thomas Otway, England, playwright and poet, Venice Preserved 1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 1639 Jean Racine, born in La Ferte-Milon, France, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate' 1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 1638 Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright 1637 Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65 1635 Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright 1635 Philippe Quinault, French playwright, L'amant indiscret 1631 John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas 1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright 1622 Moliere, French Playwright 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright, Voyage to the Moon 1618 Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) 1615 Jan Zoet, actor, playwright and poet, Parnasssus aan 't Y 1612 Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men 1610 Paul Scarron, French playwright, Virgile Travesti 1607 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright, Del Rey Abajo Ninguno 1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright and poet 1585 Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe 1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44 1582 Playwright and poet William Shakespeare weds Anne Hathaway 1580 Thomas Middleton, English playwright, Game of Chess 1578 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, L'adamo 1574 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright, Polyxena 1572 Ben Jonson, England, playwright and poet, Volpone, Alchemist 1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies 1564 William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright, Hamlet 1562 Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright 1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright, Kynge Johan 1492 Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright |
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